Criterion Is Opening a Brick-and-Mortar Film Store in Toronto

Criterion Is Opening a Brick-and-Mortar Film Store in Toronto

Having brought the Mobile Criterion Closet to TIFF last year, Criterion is now establishing a fixed location in Toronto in the form of a

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A good day to remind everyone that Dolly loved books. She gave millions upon millions of books to children. Folks who want to ban books and cut funding to libraries and book-related programs? We’re coming for you in the name of Dolly.

A person so miraculous she made Siskel & Ebert agree ♥️

Bored Humungus@writtenlow.bsky.social · last mo.

some words on Soraya Roberts, the best writer i ever knew

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I sat on the aisle at a movie the other day.

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Good time to remind people that the United States occupied Haiti between 1915-1934 at the behest of US banks. Along with killing ~15,000 Haitians, the US instituted forced labour, rewrote the constitution, took over the financial system and created the blueprint for later authoritarian regimes.

Let’s keep the citizen boycott of US goods and services going too.

Toronto Star@thestar.com · last mo.

Mark Carney suspends trade talks with U.S., says Canada will match new tariffs ‘dollar for dollar’

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Candice Frederick@candicefrederick.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What Is the Definitive Movie About America? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/m...

Close Encounters Jaws Raiders West Side Story Catch Me If You Can Munich Minority Report Sugarland Express Lincoln The Fablemans

Bill Hunt@billhuntbits.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My Top 10 Spielberg 1. Close Encounters 2. Jaws 3. Raiders 4. Munich 5. Empire of the Sun 6. Lincoln 7. Minority Report 8. A.I. Artificial Intelligence 9. Duel 10. Bridge of Spies (or War of the Worlds, or Saving Private Ryan) I also love 1941, but I can't justify putting it above.

How often these days do you see big, mainstream movies featuring blue-collar workers (other than cops or soldiers), let alone them having profound and life changing experiences?

Up next on TCM@tcm-up-next.bsky.social · 4mo ago

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977) — 8:00 pm ET — 2h 12m (TCM Primetime: Spielberg Sci-Fi) Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr; directed by Steven Spielberg A blue-collar worker's encounter with a UFO leaves him a changed man. #TCM #TCMParty

Oscar winner and San Francisco resident Marcia Lucas — the former wife of George Lucas who edited the original “Star Wars,” “American Graffiti” and “Taxi Driver” —  has died.

‘Star Wars’ editor Marcia Lucas, former wife of George Lucas, dies at 80

Oscar winner and San Francisco resident Marcia Lucas — the former wife of George Lucas who edited the original “Star Wars,” “American Graffiti” and “Taxi Driver” —  has died.

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Lovely fall weather we’re having today in Toronto.

If we actually want to appreciate moms, we should be providing free childcare, healthcare, and guaranteed income for stay-at-home parents to put more money in families’ pockets and ensure no SAHP is reliant on a partner for their economic security. Idk I think that’s better than 15% off a vacuum.

No question: Leonard Nimoy playing a leather-gloved self-help guru inadvertently in league with the aliens in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. One of my favour bit parts in the entire 70s!

C. Robert Cargill@crobertcargill.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Give me your favourite Non-Trek performance from a Star Trek actor. Every time Brent Spiner showed up on NIGHT COURT was a god damned treasure. Bob Wheeler (and his whole family) was a gift us all.

So, I really didn't want to have to go this route. But in short: I need a root canal and I can't afford the treatment now. If any of you are willing to help, both a small donation and a share can go a long way. www.gofundme.com/f/funds-need...

Donate to Funds Needed for Urgent Root Canal and Crown, organized by Jaime Rebanal

Hello, everyone. I'm starting this GoFundMe because I found out earlier… Jaime Rebanal needs your support for Funds Needed for Urgent Root Canal and Crown

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Even during the worst days of network television they wouldn’t have done this.

Matt Hill@gethill.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Prime with ads. Just how Kubrick intended.

Happy May Day! Every right we have as workers in Canada—8 hour days, 5 day work weeks, minimum age, minimum wage, worker’s compensation, EI—all had to be fought for and won—often with blood. Billionaires and conservatives will take everything from us if we let them.

Feed people pablum and you keep them babies for the rest of their lives. Shake them up and you make life-long readers.

🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈@haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Shit like this being thrown at me when I was younger was part of why I was reading Dean Koontz already at age 10. It's gross to make talking down a "standard" of anything, and dishonest to kids who need books that say "you're going through shit? So are the people in this story. You aren't alone."

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

American cinema in the 1970s is a rare exception. Unmatched employment of normal-looking people alongside talented beauts.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 5mo ago

There is a huge market inefficiency in every country's film industry through underemployment of ugly people who can act and overemployment of beautiful people who cannot

I have considered Moleskine to be outrageously overpriced for quite some time but using AI to generate a sketchbook cover betrays a level of hubris that is wild even for them. Those high prices and they couldn't be bothered to pay a human? Dump 'em. cjleo.com/blog/moleski...

Moleskine's AI Lord of the Rings Collection Can Only Mock

New Moleskine X The Lord of the Rings notebook collection is "imagined by Moleskine, generated by AI".

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Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

a woman in a yellow jacket is smiling in front of umbrellas hanging on the wall

Alt: Gif of scene from Umbrellas of Cherbourg: Catherine Deneuve waving through the window of the umbrella store.

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Looking forward to a remake with the subtext explained to me three times, the socio-political subtext stripped away, and shittier VFX.

Joshua Rivera@jmrivera.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I don’t think you should be allowed to make a possession remake at all, and certainly not if you haven’t gone through catastrophic personal crises and a divorce that caused you to behave in ways we would consider cancellable bloody-disgusting.com/movie/394801...

At least 34 tankers with links to Iran have bypassed the US military blockade of the Strait of Hormuz since it began, including several carrying Iranian oil—despite Trump declaring the blockade a “tremendous success”

Iranian tankers bypass US blockade

Dozens of ships exiting the Gulf include several loaded with Iranian oil

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There would have been no Continental Army for the French to hand victory to at Yorktown without the jab.

bobby@bobbylewis.bsky.social · 5mo ago

it’s so funny that the drunk tv host in charge of the military is like “real warriors don’t need vaccines” when all the greatest generals in history would have done anything for a jab that kept their armies safe from disease

Nobody over the age of say 50 should give a shit about this because life is short and every moment precious.

IGN@ign.com · 5mo ago

Director Joe Russo said it is vital to bring Avengers: Endgame back to theaters ahead of Victor Von Doom’s arrival later this year because the new footage is "critical" to the story of Avengers: Doomsday. https://bit.ly/4sGegOJ

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Vandy@avartwork.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“Netflix ruined movie theaters” People treating the theater like their living room ruined movie theaters more than anything else in my opinion.